A research team from York University have been working on developing more practical and streamlined devices to assist humans with everyday movements, such as standing and sitting. The objective was to determine if energy could be regenerated in prosthetic devices during these movements, similar to the way in which hybrid electric vehicles recover waste heat from braking and convert it into useable energy.

Maplesoft announced that James (Jim) Cooper, its president and CEO, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo (UW). The University presented Cooper with a Doctor of Engineering degree at a recent graduation ceremony held at the university.

Dr. Joaquin Carrasco, Professor of Control Systems at the University’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, has taught various Control Systems courses to Master’s students in the Master of Science in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering program for the past six years. He has received overwhelmingly positive student feedback from using Maple T.A., the powerful online testing and assessment system from Maplesoft, in his Control Systems classes. He has also recently incorporated Maplesoft’s MapleSim and the MapleSim CAD Toolbox into his Robotics courses. With the MapleSim CAD Toolbox, students can see how their mechanical CAD models behave as part of a larger, multidomain system.

Maplesoft will welcome experts and users of Maple T.A. and Möbius to Vienna from October 19-21, 2016, for its annual user summit. Long-time customers and users will gather at the Vienna University of Technology for presentations on the latest news and features of Maple T.A., Maplesoft’s testing and assessment tool, and the recently introduced Möbius, Maplesoft’s platform for developing online science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courseware.

System models, recorded in popular languages like Modelica, and simulation models, authored in FEA software like ANSYS, STAR-CCM+, and Abaqus, traditionally live in separate worlds, managed by different domain experts. But perhaps it’s time for the two to come together.

MapleSim software from Maplesoft has always been about building models of devices and systems. Laurent Bernardin, chief scientist at Maplesoft, says that their customers use their products to simulate device behavior and get insight for optimization, seeing where perhaps a device would have problems and fixing it ahead of time.

Maplesoft, developer of Maple T.A., announced that it has entered into an alliance partnership with Instructure, makers of Canvas, a modern learning management system (LMS) that makes teaching and learning easier for educators and students. With this partnership, Instructure will recommend Maple T.A. to its customers.

Maplesoft™, a leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics, has announced a reseller agreement with Binary Semantics, a global software development company operating offices and a technology centre in India. Binary Semantics will represent Maplesoft in India, as well as in the surrounding countries of Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.

Rotek, the maintenance branch of state-owned electricity provider Eskom, is using technical computing software from Maplesoft to design a comprehensive pre-inspection simulation model for use in the ultrasonic inspections of its turbine blades.

MapleSim Pneumatics Library from Modelon is an add-on component library to MapleSim system-level modeling and simulation platform. This library can be used in the modeling and simulation of pneumatic systems for system design, component sizing, and control design, with applications that include construction equipment, machine design, and commercial vehicle design.